[Numpy-discussion] PR to add a function to calculate histogram edges without calculating the histogram

[Thomas Caswell]

As commented in the OP, this would be very useful for Matplotlib.

Tom

On Fri, Mar 9, 2018 at 1:42 PM Kirit Thadaka <kirit.thadaka at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Hi!
>
> I've created a PR to add a function called "histogram_bin_edges" which
> will allow a user to calculate the bins used by the histogram for some data
> without requiring the entire histogram to be calculated.
>
> https://github.com/numpy/numpy/pull/10591#issuecomment-371863472
>
> This function allows one set of bins to be computed, and reused across
> multiple histograms which gives more easily comparable results than using
> separate bins for each histogram.
>
> Please let me know if you have any suggestions on how to improve this PR.
>
> Thanks!
>
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> Kirit
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